This Video Of A Mollusk Moving Underwater Has People Completely Losing Their Shit

More and more people are learning every day that the world is a deeply troubling and perplexing place.

Case in point: in a video that's gone viral this week, a shelled sea creature is seen clamoring around underwater. "RT if you've never seen a sea shell move before," the tweet was captioned. Thousands have now done just that.

*For the official record: The creature in the footage is a scallop. Yes, they are living. No, they are not classified as plants.*

The compression of their shell's valves force water through jets, and that force helps direct the shell in the direction of the shell's opening.

Les Kaufman, a Boston University professor of Marine Biology, confirmed to BuzzFeed News that the subject of the viral video is indeed a scallop — and "that mollusks can move."

"I think the problem with folks not knowing that mollusks can move is that they do not realize that mollusks are animals in the first place," Kaufman said. "Yeah, it’s a scallop. Moving normally, as they do, jetting water by clapping their shells together."

In fact, there are so many videos on the internet showing clams runnin' around in the open water.